Improved machine for uniting the soles and uppers of boots and shoes



i "tai/st 'atwt l @time T0 K. REED, or EAST BRTDGEWATEE, MASSACHUSETTS.Leners Patent No. 86,590, dated February 2, 1869.

IMPR'ovED MACHINE PGR ',UNITINGTHE sones AND UPPERS or BooTs AND SHOES.

i The Scledule referred to in these Letters Patent and making of thesame.

To all whom 'it `may concern Be it known that I, 'I. K. REED, of4 EastBridgewater, in the county of Plymouth', and State ofMassachusetts, haveinvented an Improvement in Machines for Uniting the Soles and Uppers ofBoots 4and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken' inconnection with the drawings which accompany and form part of thisspecification, is a description of my invention,.suiiicient to enablethose skilled in the art to practise it. In that part of the manufactureof bootsand shoes which relates to machine-soling, two classes ofmachines are principally used, one known as the McKay sewingmachine, inwhich. the sole and upperof the boot or shoe are united by acontinuousseries of stitches passing through both sole and'upper, the boot or shoebeing supported upon a horn, and the other known as a pegging-machine,in which the sole is fastened to the upperby a series of nails or pegs.Wooden-pegs are mostly used in these machines, each peg to be drivenbeing in turn cut from the end of a band or strip o`f peg-wood.

Pegs or nails cut from a continuous wire or pegforming mateiialhave beenused, however, as may be seen by the Greenough patent, of January 17,1854, and the Day patent, of J une 28, 1864, Greenough using metal pegs,or fastenings, cut from a coilA of wire, and

Day using thread pegs, or fastenings, out from a coil of Iigidiiiedthread.

L. R. Blake, (the inventor of the horn sole-sewing machine,) has alsoinvented, in connection with A. S. Libby, a sole-nailing machine, forwhich patent No. 76,150 was granted, March 31, 1868. f

In the Greenough nailing-machine there was no provision for cuttingthe-wire into nails of variable lengths, in accordance with the varyingthickness of a sole o f a shoe in the toe, ball, shank, and heel.

In the Blake nailing-machine, awork-supportin g horn is used, and in hismachine such provision is made, the

' wire being automatically cut to a length corresponding to thethickness of the sole and upper atv the-point at which it is to bedriven.

In my machine I use a horn for supporting the machine,ldesigned forpeggingwith fastenings cutfrom a continuous wire-like material.

But instead of automatically cutting the eg-forming material intolengths corresponding to t evarying thickness of the sole and upper, Icut all the fastenings to a uniform length, and after each is driven, Icut off the end which protrudes, beyond the surface of the inner soleinto the boot or shoe, by a cutting-mechanism, combined with the horn,thus eventually bringing each fastening to a length corresponding to thethickness ofthe sole, but effecting this after each nail is cut from thecoil, and after driving it, instead of before it is driven.

- invention consists, particularly, in combining, with -a mechanism forpegging or nailing soles to boots and shoes, upon a boot orshoe-supporting horn or arm, al mechanism for cutting off the ends ofnails or pegs protruding through the inner solo. y

The drawings'represent a pegging-machne embodyl ing my invention` Ashows a front View.

B is a side elevation, (but showing the horn in ver-V tical section.) C,a plan of the top ofthe horn.

a denotes the head, and b, the standard of a common pegging-machine, forcutting pegs from a coil of lof my invention thereto 'to be readilyunderstood.

In these former pegging-machines, the shoe .to be soled is generallyfastened upon a last, which last 'is mounted upon a suitablejack-mechanism, instead of lwhich I support the shoe upon the top ofanarm, simf ilar to what is known in the Blake or McKay sewingmachine, andthe Blake nailing-maehine,as a horn, theinner surface of the shoeresting .upon the horn c, and the shoe being fed upon this horn by thefeed-foot or awl-point of .the pegging-mechanism.

Through the top of this horn, in vertical line with the peg-driver, Imake a vertical hole, d, into which hole the end of the peg, which mayproject beyond the inner sole, extends when driven.

In the top of the horn I set a reciprocating cutter, e, the cutting-edgeof which is iiush with or slightly below the top surface of the horn.

This cutter is preferably so arranged as to receive its motion from thedriving-shaft j, which actua-tes the peg-cutting and driving andshoe-feeding mechanism, for which purpose it may be fixed to the end ofa rod, g,connected by a rocker-lever, h, to one end of another rod, t',whose opposite end is jointed to a crank-arm, k, on a vertical shaft, l,having at its lower end a ratchet, m, intermittently driven by a pawl,x, fixed to a rockerarm,.n, connected by a link, o, with the lower endof a rocker-lever, p, from whose upper end a pin, g, projects into thegroove of a cam, fr, on the driving-shaft, the cam Vand the connectionsfrom it to the cutter being so timed in their action that after each pegis driven, the cutter is thrown forward, to sever the end of the pegprojecting into the hole in the horn, (if such peg protrudes beyond theinner sole,) after which the cutter is drawn back, so as to permit thenext peg to be driven.

The horn is fixed upon thetop of a post, s, snpported upon thefront endof a 'weighted lever, t, simi ilar to that upon which the jack-meehnismis uslally I claim the combination, with the mechanism for supported,the lever being fulerumed in the post b, the uniting. the soles to theuppers of boots and shoes upon post s sliding 1vertically in suitablebearings, to permit e shoe-supporting horn, of the mechanism for cuttingthe horn to yield, and to keep the sole pressed up oi the -end ofeachfastening projecting beyond the snragainst thedriving andfeeding-mechanism, es the a1,- faee of the inner sole, substantially asdescribed. ternating thick and thin portions of the sole pass over l T.K. REED.y thehorn, he Vertical movement of the horn also per- Witnesses:

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L. H. LATIMER.

